- Two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer Cassandra Wilson has died in Jackson , Mississippi , aged 70.
- According to the Hinds County Coroner Jeramiah Howard, Wilson passed away on Tuesday morning, while her manager said in a statement to jazz radio station WBGO: “Cassandra Wilson transitioned peacefully at home, surrounded by family, close friends, and her manager.”
- Famous for her genre-bending voice, she was dubbed America's best singer by Time magazine in 2001.
- She earned four Grammy nominations and won two for best jazz vocal album for New Moon Daughter in 1997 and Loverly in 2009.
- Jackson Mayor John Horhn said the city “has lost an extraordinary native daughter, and the world has lost a singular musical voice.”
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Cassandra Wilson, ‘America’s best singer’ and two-time Grammy Award winner, dies
